[tex-live] Fwd: files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 23/08/2010 01:41, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> 2010/8/23 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>:
>> ...
>>>> By the way, the formats (fmt files) definitely need to be regenerated (I'm
>>>> probably stating the obvious, but anyway).
>>>
>>> It's not obvious to me, but I never really looked into this.
>>>
>> I mean, *when* something concerning the formats is changed, the only way to
>> handle that is to regenerate the formats, patching them like we would patch the
>> ls-R files is not an option. (Binary files, engine-dependent format, etc.)
>>
> Hyphenation patterns are inside the format.  These patterns are
> definitely not additive in the binary format file. Reimplementing this
> part of the iniTeX engine in perl so that the format files can be
> patched according to user selection would be painful
> 
Isn't that precisely what I was saying?

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